Allied troops establish a beachhead at Normandy during World War II. German prisoners marching along as an Allied soldier watches. A Military Policeman (MP) walks along. German Prisoners of War (POW) seated on the sand in a small barbed-wire enclosure. Group of prisoners. Trucks on the beach in the background.
War destroyed buildings of Koblenz, Germany during World War 2 (sometimes spelled Coblenz). A lone soldier walks through deserted streets. Destroyed buildings and rubble everywhere. A dead soldier lies on the street. Aerial view of city showing damaged buildings and statues. Desolate and deserted streets. A equestrian statue of the Emperor Wilhelm I is shown toppled over, with the entire equestrian statue on its side.
Responsibility of United States Air Force MAC during war time. People carry a wounded on stretcher into a Military Airlift Command (MAC) C-9 aircraft. Trained flight nurses and medical technicians board the plane. Men arrange stretchers inside the plane. MAC planes land and take off. View of Aero-medical evacuation during the Vietnam War in South East Asia. Soldiers carry injured United States Army soldier into a helicopter ambulance in the late 1960s or early 1970s.Medical personnel attend to the wounded on stretchers in a C-9 plane.
American columns cross the Seine in France during World War 2. Soldiers in boats reach the shore. Civilians stand by the river. General George S Patton's armored division crosses the river on pontoon bridges. The U.S. troops advance towards Paris. Smoke arises due to explosion. Tanks and soldiers firing machine guns beneath the Eiffel tower. The tanks move past the Eiffel Tower. Civilians crouch on the ground. Tanks on the streets. Nazi prisoners marched on the street. Tanks and soldiers fire at Nazis in the German Headquarters at Chamber of Deputies. French soldiers fight German snipers from the streets. A man closes shop and escapes. Allied soldier leads a Nazi waving a white surrender flag across the street. Large group of surrendered German soldiers gathered as prisoners of war on August 25. Traffic around Arc De Triomphe. The French flag raised on a building. The 2nd Armored Division of the Free French Army of Liberation, under French General Philippe Leclerc, parade on Paris streets on August 26. Large crowd gathers to welcome them home. Nazi prisoners march in the streets flanked by Allied soldiers. General Leclerc and his men on tanks. Girls kiss the soldiers. American, British, and French soldiers drinking from wine bottles and celebrating with the crowd.
Ceremony honoring the USAAF 389th Bombardment Group, on completion of 200 missions in the European theater during World War 2. U.S. Lieutenant Generals Carl A. Spatz, Commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe, and James Doolittle, who is about to assume command the 8th Air Force, stand together with officers representing several World War 2 Allied nations. A large formation of B-24 Liberator bombers flies overhead. Closeup of two soldiers looking up at the formation. Aerial view of the B-24 formation, from an accompanying aircraft. A color guard with the American flag. Representatives of various Bombardment Squadrons stand holding their unit flags. General Doolittle makes brief remarks on the merits of the 389th Group, which draw chuckles from the audience, including a smiling Soviet officer, Standing to the far left in the picture, behind Doolittle. (He has been identified as Major Timofey Samarin, assigned as Air Force assistant to the Soviet Ambassador, and also as Military Attache to the United Kingdom.)
A prisoner of war camp hospital in Southern United States during World War 2. The religious clerics and prisoner officials walk around camp. German Red Cross officer talks to priests and other officials. They enter the hospital. Patients on bed. Doctor looks at the knee of the prisoner and nurses help him.
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